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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 3 : Chapter 1, Chapters 13 & 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which railroad originated in California?
(a) Kansas Pacific.
(b) California Pacific.
(c) Central Pacific.
(d) Union Pacific.

2. According to the author, who has written the definitive biography of George Custer?
(a) Ken Burns.
(b) Carol Gluck.
(c) Jay Monaghan.
(d) George Bent.

3. What position is Custer offered in Chapter 14 that pays $10,000 a year?
(a) Position in the War Department in Washington, D.C.
(b) Fort Commander over Fort Kearney.
(c) Position protecting California railway workers.
(d) Position in Mexican Army.

4. At age ten, Custer went to live with his half-sister and her new husband who lived in __________.
(a) Boston, Massachusettes.
(b) Monroe, Michigan.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Yorktown, Indiana.

5. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Trying to do something and be somebody.
(b) Going to school.
(c) Playing practical jokes.
(d) Competing against others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is George Bent?

2. What river takes the Custer party to Alexandria?

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that Americans worked so much that work became ____________.

4. What political party did Custer officially endorse in 1866?

5. When E.B. Taylor met with Red Cloud, what did he raise the annual annuities to?

(see the answer key)

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